OUR READERS’ VIEWPOINTS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6243, 17 June 1946, Page 5

OUR READERS’ VIEWPOINTS

A WORD OF HOPE > Sir, —During the entire six years of the war period in England I spent as a very unwilling spectator by sneer mischance an unpleasing period. The war broke out during my enforced visit in 1939. During that anxious period we, the much-bombed and harassed people of London, were entertained, in most cases gratis, by sev- ' eral well-known Continental artists. F Among those of renowned repute was • a violin musician called Rubini, who 1 notice is due to play here in our msst in our little town of Te Awamutu next Tuesday evening. Recalling the sheer enjoyment of his playing, I decided yesterday to take the precaution of reserving two seats. On viewing the box plan I was thunderstruck by the visible apathy of the people of this town, exemplified in the smallness of the reserving of seats. Apart from the patriotic duty we owe to such an artist in return for his war services, we at least should show our enthusiasm, if lack of knowledge, for a man of such repute to visit this town. I hope this letter may give an impulse to the concert and at least show that we are not all and only agriculturallyminded.—l am, etc., WELL-WISHER.